Ministry of National Defense Republic of Korea

 

 

 

The International Peace Corps (IPC), Special Operations Command, engaged in a PKF combined exercise and upgraded its mission capability.

 

The IPC participated in the 2015 Khaan Quest conducted in Mongolia for 11 days beginning the 20th of last month and then returned home.

 

This Khaan Quest, conducted by the Mongolian military and supported by the U.S. Pacific command, has been performed as a PKF combined exercise between the U.S and Mongolia every year since 2002.

 

The name of the exercise was changed to “Khaan Quest Exercise” in 2006 and it was expanded to multi-national PKO training.

 

This year, approximately 1,100 troops from 20 countries such as Korea, the U.S., Mongolia, China, Japan, the Czech Republic, etc., participated. Thirty-four special forces including a drill instructor participated  in the exercise and mastered the UN’s standard tactical tasks as well as PKO activities and humanitarian support when virtual national disputes and disasters occurred at the combined training center in Mongolia and around Ulaanbaatar.

 

In particular, our forces consisted of special agents with dispatch experience and UN-authorized instructors from the international peace corps, the exclusive unit of dispatch to raise effectiveness of the exercise.

 

Participants developed mission capabilities related to seven tasks of the UN’s standard training, including patrol, suspension, investigation, checkpoint operation, escort operations, combat relief, etc. They also invigorated the military exchange with multinational forces and enhanced PKO mission capability, passing on PKO mission know-how to other foreign countries.

 

“I’ve participated in this Khaan Quest exercise as a Korean platoon leader and developed actual PKO mission capabilities through combined training with the multinational forces. We enhanced the position of the IPC, which makes a contribution to world peace as well as the Korean Army,” said Major Kim Dong-min, the area leader.

 

By Yeong-Sun, Lee < ys119@dema.mil.kr >

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